{"id":143598,"date":"2026-01-06T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143598"},"modified":"2026-01-06T01:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:00:29","slug":"china-japan-military-tensions-what-lies-ahead-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143598","title":{"rendered":"China-Japan military tensions: what lies ahead in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAs the new year unfolds, China finds itself grappling with strategic pressures fuelled by two US treaty allies at its doorstep \u2013 Japan and South Korea. In the first of a two-part series, Seong Hyeon Choi looks at how historically fraught China-Japan ties might fare as Tokyo bolsters its military posture with record budgets and advanced weaponry.<br \/>\nChina and Japan have never fully resolved the decades-old grudges of their wartime history and territorial disputes, but it was near the end of 2025 \u2013&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3338769\/china-japan-military-tensions-what-lies-ahead-2026?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAs the new year unfolds, China finds itself grappling with strategic pressures fuelled by two US treaty allies at its doorstep \u2013 Japan and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143598"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}